Does the racial distribution of minority speakers or panel members include each (at least one) of the following?: African, Hispanic, Middle-Eastern, Indian (or Pakistani), Japanese (or Chinese, Korean, or Mongolian)?

2. Diversity Training

To complete your diversity training regimen with famed sensitivity-whisperer Dame Faruk Ateş, simply write an article or blog post about the damage done to society by the notion of arbitrary diversity. Dame Faruk Ateş will notice a disturbance in The Force and come calling. Thereupon s/he will write approximately 2000 words per day in blog comments or posts taking you to task and explaining in great detail the grave mistake you’ve made. You must read all of Dame Faruk Ateş’ comments and posts for a period of 2 weeks. At which point you will have satisfied your diversity training requirements.

3. Arbitration

The Arbitrary Q.U.O.T.A. Board will hear your case, weigh the facts and mitigating circumstances, and then hand down a ruling. The Arbitrary Qu.O.T.A. Board’s ruling is final and binding.

I (the conference organizer) have been socially conservative all my life, but now wish to convert to progressivism/Marxism.

The Qu.O.T.A. rules do not apply to you. Moreover, our administration would like to interview you and publish a feature on your life, values, and enlightenment in the many Qu.O.T.A. member publications (Communication Arts, AIGA website, Design Observer, and others)

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Design and Tech ConferenceQuick Orthodox Tokenism Assessment System

O hai! This site is satire. It pokes fun at the destructive idea of arbitrary diversity, or tokenism, and the people who promulgate it. The Tokenist Union for Required Diversity and Statistics (T.U.R.D.S.) and the Arbitrary Qualification-Offset Tolerance Administration Board (Arbitrary Qu.O.T.A. Board) are fictitious organizations...whose members are all-too real. You’ve heard perhaps or read their unfortunate and often racist, sexist comments on Twitter and probably come across their vicious and baseless accusations all the time in social media and industry articles.

Diversity is what can happen when lots of different people choose to show up. Diversity is not about how people look, but about how people think. Diversity defined as applying to race or gender or sexual orientation condescendingly assumes these qualities entirely define the person in question, and constitutes a sexist, racist, homophobic attack on individual dignity and sovereignty. Tripe.

These idiots will do great harm to the tech and design professions unless intelligent, moral, and thoughtful people recognize their destructive effort for what it is and call them out publicly. I’m doing my part here. Hope you got a chuckle or two from it.